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offices, which make great and injurious demands on our time and 
attention; and an application for these exemptions would, your 
Council have every reason to believe, be attended with success; 
but how, with common consistency, can it be made, while the Go- 
vernment is importuned for certain privileges on the one hand and 
for certain powers on the other? Such disunion would at once 
constitute a plea for the rejection of even the most reasonable 
claims, and thus all suffer from the importunities of the few. Let 
us hope the time wiM come when, hand in hand, one great effort 
will be made to ameliorate and improve the body at large ! 
Arising out of these conflicting views the following correspond- 
ence and result have taken place : — 
Sir, Whitehall , Aug. 18 th, 1845. 
I am directed by Secretary Sir James Graham to acquaint you, that he has 
received from various quarters, and from parties who feel a deep interest in 
the advancement of veterinary science, applications for the grant of a Charter 
of Incorporation differing, in some respects, from that which was lately granted 
by Her Majesty to you and certain other members of the veterinary pro- 
fession. 
Sir James Graham is disposed to attach weight to the representations 
which have been made to him on this subject ; but it appears to him that 
modifications might be introduced into the existing Charter which would at- 
tain the objects sought by the parties making these representations, and 
which would, indeed, as Sir James Graham believes, render the Charter itself 
more satisfactory to the profession at large. Before he takes any steps, there- 
fore, in this matter, he will be glad to learn from you what may be the views 
which are entertained with regard to it by those to whom the existing Charter 
has been granted. 
Sir James Graham does not think it necessary at the present moment to 
enter into any detail of the specific alterations which have been suggested to 
him ; but he will be prepared on a future occasion to communicate them to 
the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, in the event of their concurring 
with him in the opinion that, under the circumstances which he has stated, 
it is desirable that the Charter possessed by them should undergo revision. 
I am, Sir, 
Your obedient servant, 
Mr. Thomas Turner, II . Manners Sutton. 
Veterinary Surgeon , 311, Regent Street. 
To the Right Hon. Sir James Graham , Bart., Her Majesty' s Principal Secretary 
of State for the Home Department. 
Sir James, 
I have the honour to acquaint you that a meeting of the Council of the 
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons was held at the Imperial Hotel, Covcnt- 
Garden, on Thursday the 11th inst., at which it was unanimously agreed as 
follows : — 
“ That the views entertained by the Council are, that the present Charter 
is all that the general body of the profession either wish or require, 
and, therefore, they are most desirous to retain it in all its present 
integrity.” 
